“To the country dug into our lives like a grave,to the country etherized, and killed,a sun rises from our paralyzed historyinto our millennial sleep”

“Despite the variety and the differences, and however much we proclaim the contrary, what the media produce is neither spontaneous nor completely “free:” “news” does not just happen, pictures and ideas do not merely spring from reality into our eyes and minds, truth is not directly available, we do not have unrestrained variety at our disposal. For like all modes of communication, television, radio, and newspapers observe certain rules and conventions to get things across intelligibly, and it is these, often more than the reality being conveyed, that shape the material delivered by the media. ”

“رغبتي أن تكون قدرتي على الرغبةأكثر من قدرتي على تحقيق رغباتي”

“What did we lose, what was lost in us?To whom do these distances belong that separated usand that now bind us?Are we still oneor have we both broken into pieces? How gentle this dust is-Its body now, and mine, at this very minuteare one and the same”

“We are at a point in our work when we can no longer ignore empires and the imperial context in our studies. (p. 5)”

“We can not fight for our rights and our history as well as future until we are armed with weapons of criticism and dedicated consciousness.”

“Good plan," Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.”